Repair Cafe is a space where I am playing with ideas I am exploring in much longer form through my Ph.D. studies and in a book whose release is imminent. This is the space for sending out bite-sized morsels to test out ideas and thoughts. I had hoped to be able to keep up with you throughout the process. It turns out that writing new content while I am in the midst of heavy editing is not a strong suit for me! Thanks for being here! I will be back to my regularly scheduled writing in your inbox on Tuesday mornings.
I look forward to sharing more about the book in the coming weeks, including a sneak peek of the cover with a VERY special design.
I would love your feedback on a few final details of the book.
Title: Consider the Joy: Responding to the Call for Land-Based Reparations in Canada
How does the following paragraph strike you? Does it make you excited to read more, put you off, or evoke a different response?
Though many of the fissures between First Peoples and the church in the land we now call Canada reach back in history to a time before any of us were born, the work of repair and restoration will call us to face difficult truths about this story of brokenness and wounding. But rather than being crushed by despair or paralyzed by guilt, this chapter invites us to see these cracks and fissures as energizing opportunities for the church and Indigenous Peoples to work together to write a new story of transformation and healing.
How do you best like to interact with a non-fiction book?
read a hard copy
read a digital copy
listen to audio
doesn’t matter the format you like to engage in a book discussion with others
The good news is that all of the above options are going to be available!
Would you be interested in hosting a site on a book tour? Let me know. We are putting a schedule together now.
Alright, I am so looking forward to bringing this to you in its full form. Thanks for your patience! See you next week for some regularly scheduled content and some more tasty morsels from the book.
Im sure you could. If not at a service then possibly after? Just ask Kim.
1. I like the title- totally reframes reparations as being opportunity rather than obligation
2. I like the paragraph but I don't automatically think of cracks and fissures as being energizing. I think this is an image that could work though if fleshed out a bit more
3. audio and hard copy for sure
4. I wish!